Cave of Wonders

    I am changing my project to concept art of my senior thesis that I will work on for two years. It is about how the Cave of Wonders came to be. It's kind of weird that people haven't really thought about the creation of the Cave of Wonders, considering there are so many theorists out there, including why there are no parents in "Ed, Edd, n' Eddy", because the kids are actually in purgatory, and are dead. This may be way out there, but to consider that a famous Disney film, that any person has not even thought about why no one, even the person pure of heart, cannot touch anything but the lamp. Why is there a magic carpet to begin with? Who made the Cave?
     I have decided to create the story about the Cave of Wonders, and show exactly how that is. But in order to begin such a story, I am going to have to make some concept art to begin understanding story-telling basics, storyboard, and getting the motion of the story to a roll.

    Right now blogger is being a pain, and is not letting me upload anything I have. This sucks. So until further notice, and when blogger gets their stupid programming running properly, I don't have any pictures I can post. :(

Unfortunate Happening

     Ok, so we have some bad news...and then some kinda-good news. And we do the lovely "Bad news? Or good news?" Well, we are doing this in order.

     So the bad news, is that I wasn't able to get paid,...LIKE I SHOULD HAVE!!!!! So the synthesizer is gonna have to wait...sad enough as it will seem, I will have to wait until this Thursday to get paid to be able to get the synth, solder it together (Let's not burn myself again...) and then FIX-IT-FELIX! AND have an awesome helmet! :)

     Another bad thing, is that my suit, which is nothing more than scrubs, has not been through the tye-dye process yet! Why? Well, let's just say that when I have been at home, the washer and dryer has been taken over by 1 of 2 people (Both of which have full rights before I, might I add) and can't tye-dye until I get those SCRUBS WASHED!

     Alright. So since the cat has been brought out of the bag, might as well bring out the dog too. So what's this mean? Well, it's the some-kinda good news. The news, is that I was able to get said scrubs at a fabulously silly store named Wal-Mart for somewhat cheap. :) Made my day.

     Second. I AM getting paid Thursday, as someone has forgotten to pay me properly for the previous week. So I had a nice 5 minute talk with this person, and he said he "Fixed it". Well let's see if he does as good of a job as Fix-It-Felix Jr. from "Wreck-It-Ralph". :)

     Another good thing, is that I'm going to be able to paint my helmet and my scrubs for the suit this week, fixing what time I had lost this week, due to being sick, and working on 7 other things.... :( I don't like not sleeping. Especially Kroger stealing half my week of soul and hard work...

    Well, this week is going to be tedious. But...getting this done will be a good thing. I can't wait to get this done! But unfortunately, like the title says, no pictures. :( But next week will! :)

     So for those who want pictures....PATIENCE! Benjamin Franklin didn't say, "Patience is a virtue" for nothing! So. Teaser until next week.

    As far as the actual paints and other color knick-knacks, those are ready for spreading and painting...just...need to figure out color schematics. :( I haven't been able to sketch anything out yet. So until next time.

Synthesizer Helmet and Sound Suit

So in doing a ton load of research to be able to complete the synthesizer Helmet and Sound suit, I have decided to first talk with some friends to be able to fully figure out what exactly I am capable of doing within 4 weeks.

My girlfriend suggested not a suit, but a clothing combo that will be easier to put on and off, and a lot cheaper. Bills are taking over, and money isn't quite available for me....

It will also be a lot easier to create, with all the sound creators that I might be putting into the clothes...And a lot more roomier...don't want to suffocate my subjects.

So I want my suit and helmet to complement each other, and I want it to stand out in the open! So what better than to manipulate color dye? I decided to go to Michaels to grab some Tye-Dye, and now I will be able to create my colorful suit! I can't wait!

Onto the helmet. I already ran into some issues (wouldn't you know it?) as the Synthesizer on the helmet has a short circuit on one of the keys...Not...Good. So now I have to spend $60....Which I don't have yet...
I only have my helmet... :'(
And even so, I have to re-do my entire helmet, so that it looks more presentable, as the condition it is in is a little beat up and looks like a homeless person fixed it with duck tape...It's re-painting time.

So here's my schedule to complete my interactive sound suit.

This week: Get synthesizer, re-paint helmet, buy clothes for Sound Suit.
Next week: Have suit dyed, buy certain sound equipment for suit
Following week: Have helmet and synthesizer combined, suit and sound equipment ready.
LAST WEEK: Have results as experiment of it working is in play.

Project Choice

For my final project in Design 4 media, I am deciding to finish either one of two projects that I have started in the past. There is Project Sedrixxees, a game board that I have been trying to complete and develop for a very long time, and to take this oppertunity to finalize the project, along with the game cards, rules, and other parts of the game would be a great asset to being able to work more on illustrating characters, getting color practice, and working on fundamentals that I need to become an animator. I have a board made already, however, I am wanting to remake the board completely, with a lot of changes from the dragon to the overall design of the board.

     Project Synthesize is a helmet/suit combination which incorporates a psychological study of extrovert/introvert personality types. I have the helmet mostly completed, and the suit has not been able to be worked on yet. The wearer of the suit and helmet have their own headphones plugged into the synthesizer that sits on top of the helmet. The suit will have sound from the synthesizer audible to the surrounding area. However, because of the person wearing the headphones, people cannot interact easily with the person, as that person is disconnected(introvert) with the people trying to interact(extrovert). So basically, it is communicating that extroverts and introverts both have to play a role in society, whether or not it is the introverts trying to come out, or the extroverts from being to aggressive with introverts.

Sonitvs Mortvs

    Well, it is at the end of the production, and everything for the movie has been put together by our team. At the beginning, Will, Ken, and I made storyboards to determine appropriate camera shots and basic story-telling about a group of young hipsters that see the beginning of a zombie apocalypse. A little later on, Brad, our director, alongside with Rich, the co-director, went along with other people in our group to shoot the film.
     Jamie, the Production manager, has been trying to keep organized for our group to get things done and to help us figure out what we need to do. Ben, Ebony, and Lauren have been making sure that as the editorial team, has been keeping up with blogs and tracking progress. As they were working on that, Lauren looked for some clothing to match our story, and Ebony has been looking at sound effects to help the special effects team going.
    A little later, the team working on the documentary had interviewed me as to assemble the final documentary, along with everyone else. The team working on the film itself has not communicated with me, so I am unaware of their progress, although I am not too worried, as they have been doing a lot of studying during the time the storyboard team was creating the story.
   Overall, I am excited to see the final outcome of everyone's work, and I will post some clips when I can!